Thematic studio workshop. Requirements professors

MILANO PORTA ROMANA
DESIGN AREA

Workshop – METHODOLOGY:
The workshop is a route between
technical and artistic fields. It stresses:
Categories
Methods
Tools
Forms
Strategies
Languages

STEPS
1 - Reading the site
“The architect’s view is centred on the shapes of space....”
THE ROUTE IS NECESSARY TO MANAGE THE INTERNAL PROCESS OF THE PROJECT
It shows the relevance of the steps and of sequence that links them
DESCRIPTION – space/time lecture
Knowledge data
VALUATION - diagnosis/ Interpretation
Concept + strategic plan
TRANSFORMATION: architectural and urban choices
master plan
- Writing the text
“The language of architecture is ‘plural’ because it adopts of a lot of different languages. Each one belonging to a different field (design, planning, policy, economy.....)”
- Composing the design
“The project of architecture is a
relational site”

STEP 1 GOALS
AN INNOVATIVE VISION FOR THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
METHODOLOGY: TACTICAL / STRATEGIC PROCESS:
AIMS:
Designing a new urban layout for Porta Romana railway yard area in Milano, focusing on a new idea for the city
EXPECTED RESULT:
New Masterplan with the main connections with the surrounding context
NEW INNOVATIVE PARK VISION
General strategy and main urban sections, skyline and general view
model 1
(1:2.000)
120
90
STEP 1 SHEETS
reading
URBAN DIAGRAMS +
Synthesis of the main elements of the space: connections, monuments, open spaces, landmarks
writing
composing
GENERAL MASTER-PLAN FOR THE AREA
sheets
scales
1:10.000
1:5.000
1:2.000
120
90
120
90
from goals to panels

Set of instructions to follow up

Guide-lines:
Recognizing the main urban relations: linear corridors, strings, and sorted attractors
Highlighting empty spaces, internal rooms and space intervals
Identifying the polarizations, junctions and nuclear attractors
STEP 1.1
READING
The glance and the landscape:
a strategic vision
Panel #1:
Betweengeographyand geometry
Urban Diagrams+
Synthesisof themainelementsof the space: connections, monuments, open spaces, landmarks
MAP
SCALE 1: 10.000
Synthesisof themain elementsofthespace: limits, voidsandtraces
URBAN DIAGRAMS AND SKECTHES
referred to the past, present and future of the city
(OUT OF SCALE)
90 cm
120 cm
KEY – WORDS:
Limit Void trace

Keywords:
MEASURES PRINCIPLES RULES
Guide-lines: ‘looking for clues’
‘Traditionand innovation’: interpretatingthe lines of the stratifiedspace
‘Resiliencyand fragilities’: adoptingan elementaryglanceon the fabrics
‘Densificationand rarefaction’: Recognizingsteadyfabricsand weak fragments
STRATEGIES:
interpretative diagram
STEP 1.2
WRITING
Panel #2:
New innovative park vision
Generalstrategy and mainurbansections, skylineand general view
90 cm
MAP
SCALE 1: 5.000
Strategy and interpretative diagrams
120 cm
URBAN DIAGRAMS AND SKECTHES
(sections, skylines and genralviews
(OUT OF SCALE)
Urban strategies:
Engraving, Carving, Superimposing, Overlapping, Stratifying,
Densifying, Accosting,
Justaposing, Dividing, Unifying

Main Guidelines:
create relationships with the soil
modelling the land
operate in sections
create green and blue corridors
retrieve relationship with water
improving the system of slow
mobility
proposing a brand and meaning for the twenty first century public park
The masterplan
STEP 1.3
COMPOSING
120 cm
90 cm
MASTER PLAN SCALE 1: 2.000
Panel #3
Masterplan: betweencity and landscape

STEP 1.4: MODELING
SCALE 1: 2.000
Model
Model #1